FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 23

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 23

EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: McKinley Tariff

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boosted rates to their highest peace-time level ever; farmers had no choice but to buy expensive manufactured goods and sell their own into unprotected markets; led to unhappy farmers and Republicans lost their majority in Congress

Question 2: Winfield S. Hancock

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Democratic nominee in 1880; US Army officer; notable for his leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 3: James G. Blaine

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led Half-Breed faction of the Republican party; called for civil service reform

Question 4: "Ohio Idea"

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the idea that greenbacks (paper money) could be exchanged for gold to help farmers

Question 5: Stalwart

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faction of the Republican party; led by Roscoe Conkling; swapped civil service jobs for votes

Question 6: spoils system

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the system of trading civil service jobs for votes in an election

Question 7: soft money

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paper money; supported by poor and debtors

Question 8: resumption

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got rid of cheap paper money and replaced it with gold at face value

Question 9: Jay Gould

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the "brains" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release gold

Question 10: "Jubilee Jim" Fisk

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the "brass" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release gold

Question 11: Chester

• Arthur

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Garfield's VP who became president after the assassination; a surprising reformer; the Republican party grew to hate him

Question 12: Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882; prohibited all further Chinese immigration into the US until 1943

Question 13: Roscoe Conkling

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leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican party; supported Grant; swapped civil service jobs for votes

Question 14: Greenback Labor party

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anti-monopoly ideology; active in 1870's/1880's; opposed shift from paper money back to hard money

Question 15: contraction

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the amount of money per capita decreased between 1870 and 1880

Question 16: Ulysses S. Grant

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most popular Civil War hero; Republican; narrow cultural background; won 1868 election against Horatio Seymour

Question 17: Jay Cooke

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financed the Union during the Civil War; Jay Cooke & Company

Question 18: James

• Garfield

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Republican candidate in the election of 1880; waver of the "bloody shirt"; energetic and able; assassinated in 1881 which shocked the Republicans into reforming the spoils system

Question 19: Samuel Tilden

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Democratic nominee in the election of 1876; had fame from the Tweed incident

Question 20: grandfather clause

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an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of a policy

Question 21: Panic of 1873

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caused by too much growth and internal improvements; 15,000+ businesses went bankrupt; debtors and blacks were hit worst

Question 22: Bland-Allison Act

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1878; authorized the coinage of a limited amount of silver money; required the govt. to buy $2-4M worth of silver; repealed in 1900

Question 23: Tweed Ring

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"Boss Tweed" employed bribery and fraud to get over $200M of NYC taxpayer money; exposed by Thomas Nast and Samuel J. Tilden

Question 24: William McKinley

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last veteran of the civil war to be elected president in election of 1896

Question 25: Horace Greeley

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endorsed by Democrats in the 1872 election; had unsound political judgements

Question 26: Whiskey Ring

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a group that robbed the Treasury of excise tax revenues by declaring they had less money than they actually did; Grant was initially angry until his secretary was a culprit

Question 27: Jim Crow

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developed in the South; laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas; blacks had unequal opportunities in education, jobs, etc